Ms. Pam Breaux
Pam Breaux joined the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (NASAA) in 2015. As President and CEO, she leads the association’s board of directors and staff to advance NASAA’s policy and programmatic mission to strengthen America’s state and jurisdictional arts agencies. A native of Lafayette, Louisiana, Pam has held leadership positions at the local, state and national levels. While in Louisiana state government, she was secretary of the Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism (CRT), assistant secretary of CRT (overseeing its cultural development portfolio), and executive director of its state arts agency (the Louisiana Division of the Arts). During her time at CRT, Pam developed and led Louisiana’s cultural economy initiative and spearheaded the successful UNESCO inscription of Poverty Point State Historic Site (an ancient Indian site) as a World Heritage site.
Before working in state government, Pam was executive director of the Arts and Humanities Council of Southwest Louisiana and managed southwest Louisiana’s Decentralized Arts Funding Program. She has served on the boards of the U.S. Travel Association, NASAA, South Arts, the Louisiana Board of International Commerce and the Junior League of Lake Charles. Pam is currently a member of the U.S. National Commission on UNESCO. Within her local community, she is a member of the Louisiana State Society of Washington D.C. and the Junior League of Washington. She graduated from McNeese State University in 1987 with a B.A. in English and earned an M.A. in English and folklore from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 1995.